How many hours are you productive per week and per day?

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Post by anupshinde » Mon, Jun 16, 2014, 6:48 PM UTC

How many hours are you productive per week and per day ? And how many hours at a stretch?

For me - I have difficulty doing it more than 20-24 hours a week on an average. I'm fast at coding and problem solving - but that also means my energy wanes off faster within the first 4-5 hours and I am better off not working the rest of the time. Just in case you are wondering - I never had any problems related to productivity at my 40hr/week job except that I had to endure the additional frustrating hours.

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Post by dajbelshaw » Mon, Jun 16, 2014, 6:52 PM UTC

Interesting. I've been thinking about this recently and, yes, while I can sit in front of a computer screen for eight hours, I reckon I'm only productive for six hours. So I try and work in three 2-hour bursts.

It's worth saying that my situation's slightly different in that I work for a tech company, but I'm not a coder.

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Post by henrygrew » Mon, Jun 16, 2014, 7:35 PM UTC

I can only do 3-4 hours in the zone per day, if i take a nap in the afternoon i'm able to get another 3 hours of the zone in the evening.Thus on a good day it adds up to 6 hours of quality coding.I try to do planning and meetings in the other hours.

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Post by antoinevg » Mon, Jun 16, 2014, 8:04 PM UTC

30 minutes dropping kids at school & gym.

30 minutes breakfast, shower and HN.

3 hours of productive work.

Break for lunch and a hour's worth of random fun.

3 hours in the afternoon.

Done at 17h00.

Sustainable, and over a year it adds up to a frightening amount of code :)

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Post by MattBearman » Mon, Jun 16, 2014, 8:21 PM UTC

This may interest you - according to a study[0] the average office worker is only productive for three hours a day.

I'm a freelancer working from home, and I find I work about 5 - 6 chargeable hours / day. Of course some of those hours are more productive than others :)

0 - http://www.employeebenefits.co.uk/news/only-three-hours-of-p...

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Post by tmerr » Mon, Jun 16, 2014, 8:38 PM UTC

Most good ideas I have surface after a break from coding, be it a walk, weekend, or night of sleep. Those ideas start depleting as soon my hands hit the keyboard, and once they're gone I enter full code monkey mode. When I'm conscious this transformation is taking place I usually hit up pen and paper or a white board, which can buy me extra hours. It probably comes out to about 50% of time planning, 50% coding, and as long as I don't spend too much time in the latter I can avoid getting burnt out. I figure if I have to try when coding I'm doing something wrong though it's sometimes unavoidable.

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Post by atmosx » Mon, Jun 16, 2014, 9:13 PM UTC

4-5h/day.

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Post by khyryk » Mon, Jun 16, 2014, 10:05 PM UTC

4-5 hours per day.

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Post by lgieron » Mon, Jun 16, 2014, 10:40 PM UTC

30-35 hr/week.

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Post by templeos2 » Mon, Jun 16, 2014, 10:48 PM UTC

Managing is knowing what to do.

Managing is harder the doing stuff.

Most start-ups fail. They probably fail cause management -- working on bad idea or impossible idea or something like that.

Management is difficult.